Journal Resources

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Journal To Discover The Power Of Extended Family

Avoid the dysfunctional vision of family. Build a vision that uses the power of family. Use a Journal to help you see beyond the conflicts. Mine the conflicts for insights. Evaluate the contributions of family members. Use your journal to establish the value of family members. Use a journal to build a guiding vision of family.

While you record the present family events, look for opportunities to build upon them. Focus upon how family can provide mutual aid and support. Note how well is the family able to respond to both adversity and opportunity. Record how the family grows its power. Make note of how individual members make contributions to the family. Keep track of what unifies family and what takes away from unity. Pass on the journal so that it can serve as a legacy.

Web Sites- Babies - New York Times

Web Sites- Babies - New York Times

Journal To Leave A Legacy

The poorest among us are able to leave a legacy with the written word. A legacy that may include lessons from the past, hopes for the future. Family Journals can help preserve and maintain Good Sons Principles. Family journals can achieve a form of immortality. In this way the living may maintain meaningful relationship with the past.

In the past, Journals were the Family Bible or an occasional memoir. One copy to be shared by all. As family members moved they grew apart. The influences of any written record were small and dissipate over time.

Today technology allows us to make multiple copies available to a large group.
With a journal on the internet, the ability to influence future generations has greater power.

Raising Resilient Teens - Factors That Contribute

Raising Resilient Teens - Factors That Contribute

Journaling For Stronger Families

The Holidays may have provided an excellent opportunity to pick up journaling ideas.
Pictures taken can be added to your Journal. Combine scrapbook items with writing to make your family journal enjoyable and pleasant to the eye. You may have a taken a picture that is worth a thousand words.

Maybe you are not the journaling type. However, probably someone in the family is a capable writer and or scrapbook type. Use this as an opportunity to form a working alliance. Maybe, you are the idea person and another family member is a pack rat or maybe another takes great family photos. Combine your efforts. Maybe you can work separately most of the time and combine your efforts at a later date. A strong family finds ways to combine each others interests and assets. Journaling is another way to do things together.

The Good Sons way of journaling includes acting like a team. Journaling offers an opportunity to make a contribution towards family strength. The Good Sons way of journaling uses the concept of the Dynamic Family Table to provide meaning, purpose and direction to the effort. That is, a focus upon recording how family can provide mutual aid and support. A Good Sons Journal explores the principles of: Growth - Contribution- Unity. & Contribution